Improved washing-machine



" UNITED'STATES PATENT OFFICE.'`

GEORGE rorrs, OE YOOUMTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, AssIeNOR rro IIIMsELE, l JosErH, WILLIAM A., AND J. R. rorfrs, OE sAIvIE PLAOE.-

nlMFROVED` WASHING-MACHINE'l Speciiioalionfbrming part of Letters Patent No. 35,568, dated June l0, 1862.

T0 all rebondit-*11mg concern/.f

Be it known that II, GEORGE Por'rs, of Yocnmtown, in the county of York-#and State of "Pennsylvania, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Washing-hpchines;

" and I do hereby declare that the same are dewith my improvements; `Fig.`2 is an`elevation of` one side.

j The nature of myinvention and improveinentsin' washingmachines consists in the combination and arrangement of some links, rockshaft, audlevers with a rubber rigidly fastened to the' levers, by which means the operatoris enabled towork the rubber with l great facility, wash the clothes with great rapidity. e In the accompanying drawings, A is an ob y long rectangular box or vat to hold the Watei1 `and clothes to be washed. AThis vat may be made ofufsuchdimensions as will adapt it to the purpose, and providedwith four legs, B

B, to supportit at a convenient height for the operator,

In Eig. 2 the sin@ ofthe vat is represented as broken away, to show the Washing appal ratus, consistingof the rollers C C, rubber D,

e and theconnectionof the rubber D to the levers E E. The rollers CC are made of wood, with metal journals fitted to turn freely` in the pieces F F, fastened to the sides ,of the vat for that purpose, with their edgeschainfered, to permit the clothes washed to pass readily by them either way in washing.

The links G Gare tted to vibrate freely on the pins H H in the legs B B, and the upper ends of these links are perforated for the ends 'of the rock-shaft I, which turns freely in them.

This rockshaft I extends across the vat A between the links G G, and forms the fulcruni of the levers E E, to which the rubber D is fastened, and. by which it is operated on the clothes being washed, which are placed on the rollers G C and rubbed by the rubber,which the operator Works and presses upon the. clothes by seizing the bar K with his. hands between the ends of the levers E E. The levers are firmly and rigidly fastenedto the rubber and to the bar K, and I prefer to fasten them rigidly tothe rock-shaft I, so as to make the frame stiff which operates the rubber. L is a spout stopped by a plug, through which the Water may be drawn from the vat A.

I olaims The combination and arrangement of the vat A, links G G, rock-shaft I, and levers E E, firmly or rigidly fastened to the rubber D, substantially as described, for the purposes set forth. GEORGE POTTSU Vitnesses: e l

.IOsErIIvPor'rs MARTIN I. BURGER. 

